Joe Madureira SPIDER-MAN

Funny story around the piece. In 96' I was in town for Joe's wedding. We were both staying at his parents house the night before. While Joe was off doing something else his youngest brother came in to my room with a sly grin and a box of oooold artwork by Joe. Joe had given it to him years earlier. I had a blast looing through all of it and, I have to say, it was mind boggling how good Joe was at an extremely early age. I saw this Spidey piece and thought it was great. His brother then handed it to me and said, "Keep it." Right about that time, Joe walked in the door and just about crapped himself. He was even more mortified when his brother told him he'd given it to me. As you can plainly see, there was nothing to be embarrassed about. I think Joe was about 13 or 14 when he did this. Good times!